Friday, May 2, 2014

To Paraphrase Shakespeare, I Could Drink Hot Blood

"A Veterans Affairs official accused of keeping double books to hide the fact that dozens of veterans died awaiting care previously ran a Washington state VA facility that allegedly fudged suicide numbers,..."

This is the part that really gets me:

"But veterans advocates said Helman's transfers are part of the government agency's pattern of shuffling officials around instead of holding them accountable. 

'This is not the first time that Sharon Helman has been involved in an incident involving manipulation of patient data,' said Pete Hegseth, chief executive officer for Concerned Veterans for America. 'She fudged the number of veterans suicides at a previous job — and was never fired. She just moved.'"

The worst thing that the Roman Catholic Church did with its "problem" clergy was move them around rather than confront the issue.  I'm surprised [not really] that the government does the same thing with its employees.